Sentences with phrase «injected deep underground»

This will allow him to explore the reactions that occur when these «fracking» fluids are injected deep underground.

In Western states, most drilling wastewater is injected deep underground for permanent storage.

He said while some hyrofracking chemicals are toxic and carcinogenic, public exposure to such chemicals is manageable, and that there are no known cases of the chemicals — which are injected deep underground a mile or more to fracture gas - bearing rock layers — reaching the surface to contaminate water or air.

Fracking, as the technique is known, is the use of chemical - laced water injected deep underground to create fissures in underground rock formations and release natural gas and oil.

Others described mitigation potential through carbon capture and storage where carbon dioxide is captured during energy production and then transported to a location where it can be injected deep underground into various geologic formations and through reforestation.

For years scientists have been trying to store carbon dioxide captured from exhaust flues at power plants and other emitters, mostly by injecting it deep underground.

Environmental scientists trying to mitigate the effects of CO2 have experimented with injecting it deep underground, where it becomes trapped.

Mary Kang, then a doctoral candidate at Princeton, originally began looking into methane emissions from old wells after researching techniques to store carbon dioxide by injecting it deep underground.

Methods: One option for storing carbon dioxide is to capture the gas and inject it deep underground in porous rock formations.

In theory, CCS takes carbon dioxide emitted from the source, typically coal - fired power plants, compresses the gas and injects it deep underground in subsurface geological formations for «indefinite isolation from the atmosphere,» according to the World Resources Institute.

Environmental scientists trying to mitigate the effects of CO2 have experimented with injecting it deep underground, where it becomes trapped.

Not exact matches

The relatively new technique, also called fracking, injects massive amounts of water and chemicals deep underground to extract oil and gas.

The cause, scientists say, is injecting wastewater from oil and gas operations into deep underground wells.

And, not unlike a vase that is glued back together, a wellhead provides the crack where a new break will most likely form, particularly if CO2 is injected too fast and too much pressure builds up deep underground.

To obtain a clearer, quantifiable look at carbon trapping rates in basalt, Giammar collected samples of the rock from Washington state, where researchers previously injected a thousand tons of CO2 gas deep underground into a basalt flow.

Often, it is most economical to geologically sequester such wastewaters by injecting them underground, deep below any aquifers that provide drinking water.

Injecting wastewater deep underground is the prime suspect, potentially widening earthquake worries linked to hydraulic fracturing

Our design is a closed - loop system that injects CO2 into hot, methane - saturated brine brought to the surface from deep underground.

Injecting wastewater deep underground as a byproduct of oil and gas extraction techniques that include fracking causes human - made earthquakes, the lead author of new research from Arizona State University said Thursday.

In «The One - Stop Carbon Solution,» Steven L. Bryant proposes sequestering carbon dioxide by injecting it into hot brine from deep underground and sending it back.

The practice of injecting oil well wastewater deep underground has activated faults in the area to the extent that the state is rattled hundreds of times a year.

Geologic sequestration involves injecting would - be CO2 emissions deep underground into rock formations that trap this CO2 permanently (well, permanently as far as humans are concerned).

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

Disposing of wastewater by injecting it into impermeable rock formations deep underground is standard practice in oil - and gas - drilling hotbeds such as Texas — only the rock under Pennsylvania is not porous enough to contain it.

The USGS is also investigating other risks involved with injecting carbon dioxide deep underground, including whether this process could induce unwanted seismic activity, Warwick added.

Injecting the carbon deep underground or deep into the ocean are the two main avenues being explored for large - scale, long - term sequestration.

In these new plants, the CO2 can be removed, compressed into an oil - like fluid, then injected underground in abandoned gas and oil wells or deep saline aquifers.

Fracking means injecting water laced with sand and toxic chemicals underground to create deep ground explosions that release the gas.

The gases are then injected into deep underground reservoirs.

Hydraulic fracturing is a process for extracting natural gas and oil by injecting water and chemicals deep underground.

Injecting carbon dioxide into wet, porous rocks deep underground may be a good way to reduce emissions of this major greenhouse gas because the rocks trap the gas better than previously thought, a new study claims.